@EvilJS It's unlikely that these methods will give you the same regular expression.

@stillenat Converting regular expressions into automata is a mechanical task; search for Thompson's method.

@Raphael what? Why the same?

Why there are tags like "Java" or "C"? Isn't it misleading?

@EvilJS unlikely

@EvilJS We decided a while ago to keep them; it makes offtopic questions easy to spot, and there may be the odd language-design or whatnot question where the tag has legitimate use. Also, if we forbade the tag, posters of programming questions would just use worse tags.

@Raphael honeypot tags? lol

Neither two languages nor two schemes (one for DFA one for NFA) are the same. But minimal DFA is unique.

@mdxn Yup. ;] Ask @Gilles about the details, he was making the point originally.

@Raphael honeypot wasn't my idea, I want those tags because they're warranted

@ValentinTihomirov Explicit message passing is a lot easier to program with. Shared memory is a mess of race conditions. Shared memory often has nonintuitive performance and correctness properties (programmers believe that an assignment in one thread is immediately seen in another, and a lot of consistency properties, but these are rarely true because information takes a while to propagate, even multi-core single-node systems due to caching)

Fair point, honeypot it is.